CPU & PCIe lanes - Confused af halp plz?

m 2 slot with pcie x4 lanes   Dan m2 expansion slot

No it won't That slot will only run at PCIe x2 It's intentionally gimped on certain chipset to get people to move up to a higher-end

to allow 2 NVME drives to run in a PCIE x4 slot on a board without lane bifurcation (uplink is x4 and the card's config implements 2 x4 PCIe lanes to support both a PCIe x16 graphics card slot and a PCIe x4 NVMe SSD slot, but the older 12th Generation Alder

jam rtp slot I've tried seating the SSD more firmly in the slot, and also removed the HDD in case the SATA controller was stealing a PCIe lane The Additional CPU PCIe lanes give both your GPU and SSD access to CPU lanes 2 SSDs use x4 lanes Each generation of PCIe is twice as fast as its